CAP - A Culture of Safety Civil Air Patrol has many valuable assets that are so vital to performing the CAP mission. We have communications systems costing thousands of dollars, vehicles costing tens of thousands, aircraft costing hundreds of thousands. Our most valuable assets are our members. While volunteers do not get paid for their service, they are more valuable than any of the things mentioned before.

Without our personnel, it would be impossible to complete our mission with the vigor and professionalism that we do with our members. Our members are priceless. We, in the Civil Air Patrol, often talk about and brief safety. It is important to think about safety in everything we do. Not just on the flight line, not just at operations, but everywhere and anytime we do anything that may be hazardous.

A culture of Safety is a way of recognizing the hazards or potential hazards of day to day life that we all share weather working on a mission, eating a meal, walking in our home, or going to work or school. If we allow ourselves or others to become injured in any way creates several problems that must be managed, increasing the workload on others, and taking away from the emphasis of our mission.